'Scandal was the worst thing' Lady Colin Campbell addresses being raised as a boy

'Scandal was the worst thing' Lady Colin Campbell addresses being raised as a boy

The reality star, better known as Lady C, was raised as a boy due to a deformity of her genitals.

After being born in 1949 with a fused labia and deformed clitoris, she was raised as a boy to avoid bringing scandal to her famous family.

She said: "Because I came from a very well known family, and in those days, even more than nowadays, scandal was the absolutely worst thing. My father would just absolutely refuse to do anything about it."

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SERIOUS TOPIC: Lady C spoke openly about her odd childhood

The iconic I'm A Celebrity… star addressed her childhood on yesterday's Loose Women, admitting girls in her position were assigned "the superior sex" – male.

"Because you were a deformity, you were never to have a life, and in those days it was better to be a man than a woman," she told panellists including Andrea McLean and Katie Price.

And although she "always knew" she was a girl – because she physically was – she feels she is lucky to have been born when she was.